Video surveillance may provide key to Conshochocken burglary

CONSHOHOCKEN — A family living on the 300 block of West 6th Avenue was the victim of a burglary for the second time overnight Feb. 2, police reported.

Borough detectives obtained video surveillance footage Feb. 7 from a Philadelphia gas station that could provide clues about the identity of the suspect, who is still at large.

The homeowners, a 36-year-old man and his 34-year-old wife, told police they put their three small children to bed around 10:30 p.m. Feb. 2 and then retired themselves. The following morning, the husband told police, he came down the stairs around 7:30 a.m. and noticed the rear sliding deck door off the kitchen was slightly ajar. When his wife came down the stairs moments later, she noticed an Apple iPad was missing from the living room couch and her Coach wallet was missing from the kitchen counter.

About $250 was reportedly in the woman’s wallet, along with several credit cards and insurance cards. The total value of the loss in the burglary was about $1,050.

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During the investigation, which is still ongoing, the husband told police he remembered to lock the front and back doors to the home right before he went to bed, police said.

While checking the rest of the house, the couple noticed the screen had been removed from the dining room window, although the window was shut.

The couple told police their house had been burglarized once before, and although the home has an alarm system, the system was not activated. A sweep of the surrounding properties returned negative results for any evidence or suspects, aside from the damaged window screen in the couple’s yard, right below the window.

On Thursday, police obtained surveillance footage from a Sunoco station on the 7200 block of Roosevelt Boulevard, Philadelphia, where investigators say the woman’s debit card was used.

Anyone having any information relating to this case is asked to call Conshohocken police.